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Arghya Mukherjee

Postdoctoral Researcher - Fermented Foods, Probiotics & Gut Microbiome

Research Interests

  • Structure, function and physiology of microbiomes – understanding gut, food and environmental microbiomes through high throughput sequencing and bioinformatics.
  • Gut microbiome and health - gut microbiota and its association with suboptimal health conditions.
  • Probiotics and fermented foods - probiotics and functional fermented foods as therapeutic interventions.

Current Projects

Impact of Ingested Live Microbes on Health: An Evidence Map (MicroHealthMap) funded by the Institute of Life Sciences (ILSI), North America.

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Microbiology) – University of Calcutta 2018
  • Master of Science (Microbiology) – University of Calcutta 2011
  • Bachelor of Science (Microbiology) - 2009

Professional Membership

Associate Faculty Member (Applied Microbiology), Faculty Opinions.

  • D’Ugo E, Bruno M, Mukherjee A, Chattopadhyay D, Giuseppetti R, De Pace R, et al. Characterization of microbial response to petroleum hydrocarbon contamination in a lacustrine ecosystem. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2021.
  • D'Ugo E, Bertuccini L, Spadaro F, Giuseppetti R, Iosi F, Santavenere F, et al. Electrogenic and hydrocarbonoclastic biofilm at the oil-water interface as microbial responses to oil spill. Water Research 2021; 197:117092.
  • Mukherjee A, Lordan C, Ross RP, Cotter PD. Gut microbes from the phylogenetically diverse genus Eubacterium and their various contributions to gut health. Gut Microbes 2020; 12:1802866.
  • Chettri B, Singha NA, Mukherjee A, Rai AN, Chattopadhyay D, Singh AK. Hydrocarbon degradation potential and competitive persistence of hydrocarbonoclastic bacterium Acinetobacter pittii strain ABC. Archives of microbiology 2019; 201:1129-40.
  • Mukherjee G, Saha C, Naskar N, Mukherjee A, Mukherjee A, Lahiri S, et al. An endophytic bacterial consortium modulates multiple strategies to improve arsenic phytoremediation efficacy in Solanum nigrum. Scientific reports 2018; 8:1-16.
  • Mukherjee A, Chattopadhyay D. Exploring environmental systems and processes through next-generation sequencing technologies: insights into microbial response to petroleum contamination in key environments. The Nucleus 2017; 60:175-86.
  • Mukherjee A, Chettri B, Langpoklakpam JS, Basak P, Prasad A, Mukherjee AK, et al. Bioinformatic approaches including predictive metagenomic profiling reveal characteristics of bacterial response to petroleum hydrocarbon contamination in diverse environments. Scientific reports 2017; 7:1-22.
  • Chettri B, Mukherjee A, Langpoklakpam JS, Chattopadhyay D, Singh AK. Kinetics of nutrient enhanced crude oil degradation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa AKS1 and Bacillus sp. AKS2 isolated from Guwahati refinery, India. Environmental Pollution 2016; 216:548-58.
  • Mukherjee A, Chettri B, Langpoklakpam JS, Singh AK, Chattopadhyay D. Draft genome sequence of hydrocarbon-degrading Enterobacter cloacae strain S1: CND1, isolated from crude oil-contaminated soil from the Noonmati oil refinery, Guwahati, Assam, India. Genome Announc 2016; 4:e00367-16.
  • Mukherjee A, Chettri B, Langpoklakpam JS, Singh AK, Chattopadhyay D. Draft genome sequence of hydrocarbon-degrading Staphylococcus saprophyticus strain CNV2, isolated from crude oil-contaminated soil from the Noonmati Oil Refinery, Guwahati, Assam, India. Genome Announc 2016; 4:e00370-16.
  • Chakraborty A*, Bera A*, Mukherjee A*, Basak P, Khan I, Mondal A, et al. Changing bacterial profile of Sundarbans, the world heritage mangrove: impact of anthropogenic interventions. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2015; 31:593-610. (*equal first authorship)
  • Basak P, Majumder NS, Nag S, Bhattacharyya A, Roy D, Chakraborty A, et al. Spatiotemporal analysis of bacterial diversity in sediments of Sundarbans using parallel 16S rRNA gene tag sequencing. Microbial ecology 2015; 69:500-11.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8996-9971

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Arghya-Mukherjee-8

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cPgGeHMAAAAJ&hl=en